well you are the expert i read through the tutorial several times and i just dont get it when i try and use the script i get an error that it cannot connect to the installed perl script i looked at some books in the google library and they dont mention anything about connecting your code to a perl script only connecting to a database

Your error message is coming from your PHP script, not the Perl script.

It would probably be best to post your question and PHP code in a PHP forum.

to avoid coming back to this department and asking this question again from what i understand in the tutorials i use is to use perl code within a hyper text pre processor page how do i rig this thing up because i cannot find a tutorial at all that explains it

Your error message is coming from your PHP script, not the Perl script.

It would probably be best to post your question and PHP code in a PHP forum.

also like i said before i deleted all of my hyper text pre processor code and just copied the code from the cspan repository and i still got the same error message without any hyper text pre processor code

You obviously don't understand what's going on, nor do you understand the meaning of CGI or PHP beyond the words in the acronyms.

The script you posted is a Perl script and has nothing to do with PHP. If you're attempting and expecting the php interpreter to parse/process/execute that script as is, then that would certainly explain the error.

PHP and Perl scripts are not interchangeable. It is possible to embed Perl code in a PHP script and have the php interpreter execute Perl code (by accessing the perl interpreter), IF the script is written for that purpose. The opposite is also true; there are Perl modules which allow you to embed PHP code in a Perl script. Your script is not written to do either. That script needs to be parsed/processed/executed by the perl interpreter, not the PHP interpreter.

You obviously don't understand what's going on, nor do you understand the meaning of CGI or PHP beyond the words in the acronyms.

The script you posted is a Perl script and has nothing to do with PHP. If you're attempting and expecting the php interpreter to parse/process/execute that script as is, then that would certainly explain the error.

PHP and Perl scripts are not interchangeable. It is possible to embed Perl code in a PHP script and have the php interpreter execute Perl code (by accessing the perl interpreter), IF the script is written for that purpose. The opposite is also true; there are Perl modules which allow you to embed PHP code in a Perl script. Your script is not written to do either. That script needs to be parsed/processed/executed by the perl interpreter, not the PHP interpreter.

well atleast someone here gets it the reference materials i have say that if you direct you hyper text preprocessor to the directory in which your perl script is installed and piggy back your code on top of that then you can interchange data fairly easily between the form and the perl script but that is what the tutorial said however anytime i put that

Code

# user/bin/perl

it interprets it as comments instead of a direct connection to the directory where perl is installed but i have not been able to trouble shoot past the connection stage beyond that i could probably do some more experimenting and figure out how to code the translations

Since you appear to know very little (almost nothing) about each language, my recommendation is to forget about trying to incorporate both of them, and instead you really should focus on learning one of them and use it for your project. Once you're comfortable and reasonably knowledgeable in that language, learn the other and only when you're comfortable with both, should you work on incorporating both.

Since you appear to know very little (almost nothing) about each language, my recommendation is to forget about trying to incorporate both of them, and instead you really should focus on learning one of them and use it for your project. Once you're comfortable and reasonably knowledgeable in that language, learn the other and only when you're comfortable with both, should you work on incorporating both.

this is the website i want to reproducehttp://tashian.com/multibabel/however it has not worked in over a month and i have been using it for years all i get when i try and access this page is this weird kind of dust that you find on the exhaust fans in middle school gym class i looked at the links you sent me and i finally got around to downloaded the hyper text pre processor and perl extension that allows the two to communicate however it is way over the top for me and maybe someone can give me a little training on what exactly i am supposed to do because the books i bought on perl dont mention anything about haveing to install anything beyond the tools i am trying to use but i havent even gotten that far anytime i try and skip to a new line the stupid perl command prompt thing just closes i dont know how to do any of it i thought you just pump some code into an offline web page it would bean off to yahoo but its not working